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...RUPERT MURDOCH Marry a Multi-Millionaire fiasco is gossip fodder for years. What next? When Divorces Go Wild...
Years ago, while performing in The Vortex in London's West End, English actor Rupert Everett responded to a audience member's nasty critique of his acting by mailing her several of his pubic hairs. Luckily, current reviewers can rest assured, because his newest collaboration with Madonna, The Next Best Thing, is a sweet screenful of love and friendship that gives the real life friends a chance to play characters similar to themselves on the big screen. As Abbie and Robert, however, the duo fail to stretch their acting ranges as they tackle roles that prove to be too similar...
...scene when Robert and Abbie burst spontaneously into Doug McLean's classic "American Pie" at a funeral, one can't help but compare it to Everett's similarly spontaneous outburst of "I Say A Little Prayer" in the earlier film. In both personas, Everett also frequently tosses his Rupert-y quips. As he tells Abbie, "If I were you, and I practically am. Fabulousness and great shoes are not the only things we have in common...
...With their eyes on the bottom line, network executives are understandably torn between expensive, quality programming that may take months to catch on with viewers and the cheap, immediate gratification of cringe-fests like "Multi-Millionaire." Since Grushow's declaration, the television world has been rife with speculation. Will Rupert Murdoch's network hold fast to its vow, even if it means taking a hefty hit in the ratings? Stay tuned: Fox may have inadvertently created the season's best cliffhanger...
...Rupert Thomson's five novels have earned him the status of a cult figure, at least in the British press, but the London-based author, 44, now seems to be bidding for a somewhat more remunerative title, as in "best seller." Thomson's sixth novel, The Book of Revelation (Knopf; 260 pages; $23), ought to widen considerably the circle of his readership on both sides of the Atlantic. His new book, like its predecessors, conveys bizarre, surrealistic events with understated, laconic precision, but the principal subject this time out is that fail-safe crowd pleaser, kinky...